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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
Entertainment
Sarah Robertson

Gemma Collins kept teenage self-harming secret over fears 'I'd be locked up forever'

Reality star Gemma Collins walked into the kitchen, picked up a knife and ran its blade around her arm in front of her horrified parents. She was just 13 at the time.

It was a cry for help as bullying and teenage pressures took a toll.

But the family would never speak of it again – her parents praying it was a one-off and Gemma petrified that talking about it could lead to her being “sent to a mental asylum for life”.

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